The United Nations recently raised concerns regarding the health and climatic impacts of particles emitted by vegetation fires in regions subject to land use changes and human driven deforestation such as South-East Asia, where they are responsible for 10, 800 premature deaths per year.

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Even so, Colombia is not planning to ask the United States to donate sophisticated attack helicopters, such as Apaches, whose use would be subject to close congressional oversight on human-rights grounds.

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